[OpenAFS] Killing defunct afs processes

[Derek Atkins]

Kevin <openafs@gnosys.biz> writes:

> Bummer.  Do they interfere with other afs processes?  Meaning, if I were
> to try starting up other instances of these processes with the os in
> this state, would the defunct ones interfere with the new ones?

Probably.

> man ps mentions these sorts of processes, but doesn't go into much
> detail about them.  Do they consume memory and cpu time and other
> resources or are they more artifacts than anything else?  IOW, must I
> reboot (for the sake of stability) after being in this state?

At this point you should reboot..  In the future, you should never
"kill" an afsd process; you should "shutdown" the afs client and then
the afsd process will die on its own.

-derek
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